Wells Fargo reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(54,465 total reviews)
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Charlie Scharf

62% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Wells Fargo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 54,465 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wells Fargo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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54K reviews
2.0
Apr 20, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Low level management is usually as supportive as they are allowed to be. Great people working at WF overall. People are normally very willing to help you. Has some good benefits like 4 months paid parental leave. Once you get in you can move around somewhat easily. work/life balance is good unless you are an analyst of some sort.

Cons

Poor company/staff moral. Lots of layoffs and on the banking side you are forced to reapply for the job you currently have. No surprise when the keep only the people they can pay less. If you are in a field that isn't banking specific then the upper level management runs the show but doesn't know how things operate at the lower levels. In the WF tech world its normal to see managers overseeing an engineering group who have no engineering experience. Mid level/upper level management in tech fields are normally MBA's with a finance background who know little about the systems they support. Most of the systems and processes make no sense. Every 2-3 years everything changes depending on who's in charge and before the dust settles it changes again... usually to the way it was prior. You can bet that management will always go for the cheaper option vs the better option. Scandal after scandal after government mandate was caused by poor sr. management. Many of those managers are still around but were moved to different areas of the bank.

2.0
Mar 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, work from home, Microsoft, Java, Database, or UI developers have state of the art tools and related technologies available to them.

Cons

Application development/maintenance is heavily influenced by a chaotic production environment. You will spend your day in meetings, supporting production defects/outages, reacting to planned/unplanned events like tons of security patching/upgrades. IT policy changes from day-to-day with poor communication. Application customers are a nightmare -- you ending up telling them what their application does, they don't know (due to an equally chaotic corporate environment). Good luck getting quality code written, unless you do that on your own time. Did I mention chaotic?

2.0
Mar 10, 2021

Used to be good

Recommend
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Pros

Pay. Working from home. Great team

Cons

New "Leadership" is trying to get 60,000 tech employees on identical one-size-fits-all agile schedule. Also a big push for "Co-Location" that leaves remote workers at a big disadvantage when it comes to growth opportunities.

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